Inorganic Iodine III Derivatives

The known classes of iodine(III) compounds without carbon ligands are represented by the iodine(III) halides and by the derivatives of unstable iodine(III) oxide, I2O3, of types OIOR or I(OR)3. Table 2.1 summarizes the known inorganic iodine(III) compounds. 

Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry Preparation, Structure and Synthetic Applications of Polyvalent Iodine Compounds, First Edition. Viktor V. Zhdankin. 2014 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley Sons, Ltd. 

OIOSO2F I2 + I2OS in HOSO2F Hygroscopic yellow solid [5] 

Several computational stmctural studies of iodine trifluoride have been published [11-16]. According to ab initio calculations [16], IF3 has a distorted T-shaped geometry with the axial I—F bond distance of 1.971 A, the equatorial 1—Fbond distance of 1.901 A and an Fax—I—Feq angle of 81.7°. 

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